Costello College of Business Faculty Research

  • October 8, 2024

    Not only are retailers failing to retain and redirect business from shuttered physical locations, but their performance elsewhere also suffers as a result.

  • October 1, 2024

    Not all organizations measure success in dollars and cents. There are also the purists, whose unswerving integrity may deliver outsized market benefits—if they aren’t fatally misunderstood first.

  • September 19, 2024

    Post-Covid complaints about “Zoom fatigue,” work-life imbalance, etc. belie a deeper longing for what was lost in the transition to remote work.

  • September 4, 2024

    Thanking someone in advance for something you’re asking them to do increases their motivation and commitment to the task. This savvy managerial technique also raises some tricky ethical questions.

  • August 27, 2024

    With the right operational strategy, transitioning from selling products to delivering services can be the right move for profits, people and the planet. Ioannis Bellos, associate professor of information systems and operations management (OM)  and MBA Program Director at the Donald G. Costello College of Business, and Hang Ren, associate professor of OM at Costello, have published research exploring how servicization can live up to its massive potential. 

  • August 22, 2024

    Artificial intelligence can perform peer firm selection—a key task for investors—at least as accurately as well-established alternative algorithms and human experts, according to research by Costello profs Long Chen and Yi Cao.

  • August 16, 2024

    Fake trades engineered to juice an exchange’s numbers have been a part of bitcoin exchanges since the beginning, finds a George Mason finance prof.

  • August 8, 2024

    In churchgoing counties, financial advisors are more likely to remember their ethical training and resist the temptation to misbehave.

  • August 6, 2024

    The economic data on climate and business outcomes paints a picture of profound disruption beneath a placid-seeming surface.

  • July 22, 2024

    You can tell a lot about a hedge fund’s quality—and long-term performance—from the market climate in which it was launched.
    Lin Sun, assistant professor of finance, recently published a paper in Review of Finance that compares hedge funds formed in high-demand, or “hot,” markets to those produced in a “cold” market climate.